Waste Management

Year by year, serious efforts have been put to manage production and consumer waste.

In 2014, total production waste at the Mill was 229,800 tonnes (compared to an average of 270,574 tonnes generated previously), including 5340 tonnes of disposed waste (storage and burial), which is 3450 tonnes less than in previous period.

Since 2008, bark waste and sludge cake from the waste water treatment facilities are recycled into energy in a boiler, and the resulting ash is buried at the ash and sludge lagoon to leave a minimum footprint on the environment.

In 2015 and in the future, Volga plans to rehabilitate the area of the disused 3rd section of the sludge lagoon.